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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Saint Clair County, Illinois, 2018

18 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2018. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Saint Clair County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
18
Busiest month
June6 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 27, 20184 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

12 of 18 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Saint Clair County in 2018 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 23 of 23 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 26 minutes after it went out.

Saint Clair County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings181233%23100%26 min

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS St. Louis, MO: severe thunderstorm warnings21810154%37580%23 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 2, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX32 min
Apr 3, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX39 min
Apr 13, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX67 min
May 14, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX61 min
May 27, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX34 min
May 27, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX48 min
May 27, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX40 min
May 27, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX69 min
Jun 9, 10:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX39 min
Jun 9, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX42 min
Jun 19, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX48 min
Jun 25, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX42 min
Jun 28, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX83 min
Jun 28, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX69 min
Jul 14, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX41 min
Jul 14, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX46 min
Aug 2, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX25 min
Aug 10, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX43 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.